Heading West

Leaving Oklahoma Heading West

Friday, August 22, 2008

Had our rest... time to head west!

Hi all.
We are about to leave our friends the Nobis's in Ok after a wonderful visit, almost like home. Our route will be to Dumas, Texas or maybe north to Colorado. Ev and Mal told us of a free city RV Park in Dumas, TX. We hope to find it.

If we plan on going further west our route will be Hwy 115 to 62 to 83 to 256 to (Memphis) to 287 to Amarillo to 87/287 and north to Dumas,TX. We will be in a new time zone. I am quickly reading from our directions before we leave so I can be a good navigator for Chriss. This is quite a change from the motorcycle. No more black leather riding gear, no more knee blisters.

Today is true Oklahoma weather "Hot and Windy" with a nice blue ski. We will be enjoying the A/C in our motorhome.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Heading West!!!

We Are leaving Lawton at the stroke of 1:15 PM Again, Chriss's normal departure time. The motorcycle is packed away in the trailer. The RV is serviced and raring to go.

We have decided, we are now headed west. We had to stop to fill one of the trailer tires with some air. Then onward to Texas, taking pictures as we went. I missed taking a picture of the "Welcome To Texas" sign. Chriss without complaining turned our big rig around and went back to get a picture. Of course it was BIG Texas sign. Interesting scenery and landscapes. Very FLAT and then all of a sudden it became hilly. The rocks and dirt have an interesting shade of red. Outside temp when we stopped was 107.7 F and windy, just like opening an oven door.

While passing through Memphis TX. We passed a motel with a big sign out front stating that it was AMERICAN OWNED. Once again Chriss turned our rig around so that I could take a picture. We continued on the route laid out for us by Mal and Evelyn, our friends from Lawton. Their route was a good one, we really enjoyed the unique scenery along the way. For someone who has lived in NJ almost all of my life to see distant vistas of houses, and animals that appeared as tiny little toys in the distance was amazing. The terrain went from flat to hilly. Chriss told me that we at 3400 feet elevation and climbing, I didn't even realize we were gong up hill. It still remained HOT never going below 95* F.

We did find our way to Dumas,TX and eventually the free campground with electric hookups. The Dumas RV Park is an overnight campground good only for 24 hours. After the first 24 hours each camper must leave. Kind of like a motel for campers. We are all parked side by side with electric hook us between us. There are about 15 to 20 Campers here, a family from Dallas is next to us, and we will all leave in the AM and it's all for free. Note!!! As normal, Chriss's departure is slightly later by 5 hours.



We will be heading through the northeast corner of NM on Route 87 to 64 and then into Colorado up Rte 25 to 160 and west toward. My hope now is to find a WiFi and get this sent…

New info..... We have decided to go West to southern Utah to see Bryce and Zion, Moab, and Mesa Verde. We have seen mountains and roads and want to see some typical western flavor scenery. So heading west on Rte 87 Out of TX into New Mexico and pick up Rte 25 north into Colorado at Walsenburg we turn onto rte 160 go west to through Durango to Cortez and Mesa Verde Co. elevation 6200 ft. Do you Think we will make it today ???
Carol and Chriss